Cuba’s aging dictatorship continues its model with aid of leaders at home and abroad: Retirement in Cuba, Chavez’s illness signal change for Cuban island

Alarcon apparently out as head of Cuba legislature

Ricardo Alarcon, the long-time head of Cuba’s National Assembly, is absent from an official list of candidates for the February legislative election — meaning he will soon leave office. Alarcon’s name is the most prominent one absent from the list of 612 candidates published in the state newspaper.

Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? ProCon.org brings the pros and cons to 50-year-old debate

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the ongoing US embargo against Cuba. Eleven successive US presidents have imposed economic sanctions and restrictions on Cuban travel and commerce for all people and companies under US jurisdiction.